diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index e59cf106a75b..416ebdd5947e 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -5391,4 +5391,9 @@
     github = "minijackson";
     name = "Rémi Nicole";
   };
+  shazow = {
+    email = "andrey.petrov@shazow.net";
+    github = "shazow";
+    name = "Andrey Petrov";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrodns/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrodns/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3c55a6b036cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmicrodns/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, autoreconfHook
+, pkgconfig
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "0.0.10";
+  pname = "libmicrodns";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "videolabs";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "1xvl9k49ng35wbsqmnjnyqvkyjf8dcq2ywsq3jp3wh0rgmxhq2fh";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoreconfHook
+    pkgconfig
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Minimal mDNS resolver library, used by VLC";
+    homepage = https://github.com/videolabs/libmicrodns;
+    license = licenses.lgpl21;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.shazow ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bfa6313df477..db42506a3bc2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4095,6 +4095,8 @@ in
 
   libpointmatcher = callPackage ../development/libraries/libpointmatcher { };
 
+  libmicrodns = callPackage ../development/libraries/libmicrodns { };
+
   libnids = callPackage ../tools/networking/libnids { };
 
   libtorrent = callPackage ../tools/networking/p2p/libtorrent { };